"A tragedy is that moment where the..." - Quote by Aristotle

“And yet the true creator is necessity, which is the mother of invention.”

“People become house builders through building houses, harp players through playing the harp. We grow to be just by doing things which are just.”

“Anaximenes and Anaxagoras and Democritus say that its [the earth's] flatness is responsible for it staying still: for it does not cut the air beneath but covers it like a lid, which flat bodies evidently do: for they are hard to move even for the winds, on account of their resistance.”

“I didn't know the term 'synesthesia' until I was working on 'Cruel Summer.' Halfway into writing that, I really understood that, my entire life, I had been trying to describe this condition of mine: through painting, through this seven-screen Surround Vision film we shot in Qatar, through all these things.”

“Be careful who you choose as your enemy because that's who you become most like.”

“A man must ride alternately on the horses of his private and his public nature.”

“You only know me as you see me, not as I actually am”

“I have never admitted the right of an elderly author to alter the work of a young author, even when the young author happens to be his former self.”

“Thus inevitably does the universe wear our color, and every object fall successively into the subject itself. The subject exists, the subject enlarges; all things sooner or later fall into place. As I am, so I see; use what language we will, we can never say anything but what we are.”